say it: dram-uh-tuh-ZAY-shuhn
dramatization is a noun meaning "conversion into dramatic form". It carries 2 recorded senses.
conversion into dramatic form
“the play was a dramatization of a short story”
a dramatic representation
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dramatization come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.